You are here

Mercedes vrooms ahead to recapture lead in robo-cars

Tuesday, June 6, 2017 - 05:50

Munich

THREE decades ago, an experimental Mercedes-Benz van managed to steer, brake and accelerate on its own. But after the technology was refined enough to put an S-Class sedan through its paces on a highway around Paris in 1994, it was largely set aside as commercially unviable. Now,